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unusual facts about Northern Russia



Aviaarktika

Aviarktika established routes along the rivers and lakes of Siberia and Northern Russia; the Ob River with a base at Omsk, on the Irtysh and Yenisei rivers, with a base at Krasnoyarsk, on the Angara near Lake Baikal at Irkutsk, and at Yakutsk on the Lena.


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Elasmotherium

From medieval northern Russia, probably Veliky Novgorod, a collection of ballads has survived, combined into a spiritual theme deriving ultimately from Zoroastrianism, but with Christian overtones, called the Stikh o Golubinoi knige, or in another version the Golubinaia kniga, "The Book of the Dove".

James Brian Tait

Flying from an airfield at Yagodnik, near Arkhangelsk on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, they attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in the Kaa Fjord.

Mariya Krivopolenova

Mariya Krivopolenova was born as Mariya Kabalina in a peasant family on the Pinega River in the Northern Russia.

Northern Dvina River

From 14th century, Kholmogory was the main trading harbor on the Northern Dvina, but in 17th century it lost this distinction to Arkhangelsk (even though the seat of the Kholmogory and Vaga Eparchy, from 1732 known as Kholmogory and Archangelogorod Eparchy, which had jurisdiction over all Northern Russia including the Solovetsky Monastery, was located in Kholmogory until 1762.

Sir Montagu Proctor-Beauchamp, 7th Baronet

He was a chaplain to the forces in the First World War, service in Egypt and Greece, and as a senior chaplain in Murmansk in northern Russia.

Vyatka horse

The Vyatka breed was influenced by the climate and terrain of the Kirov, Udmurtia and western Perm regions; Estonian horses and Kleppers brought to northern Russia by Novgorod colonists from the 14th century may have affected its conformation, as may later imports of Estonian horses for mining work in the Ural Mountains.

Yamal to Its Descendants

Yamal to Its Descendants is an indigenous organisation of the Nenets people, a Samoyedic group of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northern Russia.